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Business
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SIXX AM Singer: "Success doesn't just attract praise, it attracts predators"
We've talked about creativity and theft in the music business before. Those actually in the business will tell you it can be a very predatory business for creative people. Lately, it's come up a lot when talking about…
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Renting Pinball Machines Worthwhile?
Recently have been watching the prices locally of used pinball machines on various services. One thing I've seen among the sales listing is monthly rentals being offered. Renting a machine for a couple hundred bucks a…
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Apathy is much worse than criticism
This applies to all businesses, not just the gaming sector. It's also a good life lesson in that what we focus on, what we care about, guides how we spend our time and mony. To be apathetic about something, to not be…
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How much should AI Generation become the future of gaming?
There's an 800 pound gorilla in the room, and it's not Stern Pinball newest game: King Kong: Myth of Terror Island, it's that two letter four letter word: AI. We cover AI here at PGM, both as a necessary evil and as a…
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Nearly 25% of all game time in 2024 spent playing six games with top 3 over 7 years old
Top games for playtime in 2024, what are your guesses? Indiana Jones? Starfield? Rocket League? Nope. It's sobering to think of the many, many games out there ( With 270,000+ games, Gamers are hopelessly outnumbered +…
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How long has Rockstar really been working on Grand Theft Auto VI?
Today, I'm attending a two-day management training class. You bet I'm bringing some games to play. One game none of us can play yet is Grand Theft Auto VI. We last checked in on the release status of GTA VI in 2023 ( A…
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In 2025 is not having enough consoles produced to meet need on purpose or accidental?
Somebody needs to seriously ponder the headline question. Remember the Sony PS5 launch? The real winners at launch weren't gamers like you and I, credit -- discredit, really -- the scalpers that gobbled up the consoles…
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Amazon ponders if Steam is too big to fail? Answer: Nobody is
It's interesting to see Amazon flummoxed that they couldn't compete against Steam in the PC games marketplace. They have tried to garner interest in Luna ( https://luna.amazon.com/home ), their gaming service, in Prime…
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Unlike Steam and Epic, GOG Provides Offline Installer For Games Purchased Through Their Store
I've acquired a few digital games -- mostly as freebies via Amazon Prime Gaming -- through GOG ( https://www.gog.com/en/ ), but nothing even remotely close to Steam. There's a feature GOG is touting in response to Steam…
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Will Nvidia's 5090 Be Slimmer and More Efficient?
Back in February, we published: SPECULATIVE: Nvidia 50-series Could Be Ready by Q4-2024, Early 2025 and continue to see articles pushing tech specs on the new 50-series graphic cards. One of my quotes at the end of this…
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After Dungeon Golf Underperformed, Developer Switched Strategy to More Releases, Quicker Publishing
Here's another place, at least conceptually, the music business and game development are intersecting. Something we've been talking about here and there about here at PGM is reducing the development time, shortening the…
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That Microcode Patch for 13th and 14th Gen Intel CPU Issues We Keep Hearing About
Back in February of this year we touched on No, Thank You Unreal Engine Game Crashes Reported in some High-End Intel i9 CPUs . It's gotten worse. Much worse. And it goes beyond Unreal Engine. It's the Intel CPU itself.…
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OPINION: Did Gamestop Make The Right Decision Shutting Down Game Informer?
Inching closer to my 60s (relax father time!) I have a few years still, but being able to separate the wheat from the chaff is getting easier. Look at the gaming news this past week centering around Gamestop shutting…
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Game Publishers, Quickest Way to Kill Your Game Sales is Overpricing
We see it all the time, sadly. Games that release with overinflated prices. It's painfully obvious publishers price the games from dreamland instead of reality. They set the price based on what they want it to make to…
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PGM Experiment: Suno AI Music Generator to Create Arcade, Videogame and Pinball Songs
And here not long ago, I said that AI wouldn't be useful for anything (this article in particular takes a very cold look at AI: OPINION: Google’s AI Genie Creating Faux 2D Platformer Games Likely Another Idea They Give…
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Will Feature-itis or Hyper-Monetization Destroy Discord?
Despite the title, which implies this author dislikes Discord, quite the contrary. The sometimes awesome, mostly good gamer communication utility, ah yes, there is a lot to like about Discord, but some of the new…
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Xperi, Parent Company of TiVO, Plans to Push More Gaming in Cars
Mea culpa: I had no idea who Xperi was (how many reading do?), but recognize Tivo, and they now own that brand. Xperi is big for in-dash entertainment consoles with their DTS AutoStage and according to the following…
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Study with Absurdly Small Sample Size: Most Americans Play Games at Work
I've been saying for years that studies can be done to prove anything, especially when the sample size is very small. And tiny, tiny, tiny is the following study which finds 64% of Americans are playing games at work.…
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SPECULATIVE: Nvidia 50-series Could Be Ready by Q4-2024, Early 2025
Don't typically like to play in the leaks and rumor space here at PGM, but there's something about this worth exploring. It's inevitable every high end PC or laptop purchased will soon see something faster, more…
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Videogame Physical Store in Florida Uses X / Twitter to Grow Business
For the last year most of us have seen considerable negativity surrounding Elon Musk purchasing Twitter / X for a ridiculous valuation. We're talking billions more than it was worth. We haven't shared any of those…
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Arcade1up created an Oreo-themed Pac-Man cab as contest prize
Wonder no more when the next Arcade1UP Pac-Man cabinet will be released, because it's a one-off prize in a cookie contest for Oreo. You can see what it looks like to the right and, yes, it looks more desirable than the…
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REACTION: The Little Engine That Could? Spooky Pinball's Looney Tunes Gameplay Reveal
Spooky Pinball ( https://www.spookypinball.com/ ) refers to themselves tongue and cheek as (all caps, but won't yell at you here) "the best pinball company in Benton, Wisconsin"). Surely, fellow pinball player readers,…
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TIME SENSITIVE: Bill & Ted's Retro Collection on Nintendo Switch being delisted less than 1 year after launch
No idea if Bill & Ted's Retro Collection ( Nintendo Switch Store Link ) is worth the roughly $10 it's selling for, I didn't buy it or play it, but what's disturbing and prompting this article is this game collection…
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Jirard The Completionist Character Removed from Sea of Stars game over Charity Controversy
Please note the smiling, bearded character above, based on a real gamer, because he's now been completely removed from the game, Sea of Stars. Patched completely out of existence. Why? You haven't heard? Am not aware of…
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Will MMORPG World of Warcraft Drop Monthly Paid Subscription and Come to Game Pass Now That Microsoft Owns Activision/Blizzard?
Activision/Blizzard has a number of different games that titilate the imagination as to what might happen with them now that Microsoft's massive warchest is backing them. Questions like: what about resurrecting the…
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Atari's Next Acquisition is Retrogaming Emulation Specialist Digital Eclipse
Atari in 2023 certainly isn't sitting still. $4 million in cash and incentives that could bring the deal worth up to $20 million over the next 10 years was the price tag to acquire retrogaming emulation specialists,…
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TV Tap Bar/Business Multiplayer Trivia
One of the reasons we like to go out to arcades, barcades and businesses that feature arcade and pinball, is that's when you get to see new stuff. Recently, we went to play some pinball at a local…
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Atari Buys Long Time Atari Focused Site: AtariAge
This one is not that shocking, because AtariAge is and has been the best source for Atari for quite some time. 20 years they've been running, which kind of surprised me, because it doesn't seem like that long, but hey,…
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Atari Cozies Up To Polymega According to FY2023 Annual Report
If you want to know what a company is up to, just read their annual report. Being an owner of their most recent console, the Atari VCS 800, of course I"m curious. Here's the report so, you can read it in full:…
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Flip Off Arcade - Puyallup, Washington - Customer Review
Intended to leave this mezmerizing review on Pinside , but you have to be a verified member there to leave any reviews. Looking into that process, it seems it's a paid deal, most likely to keep riff raff like me out, so…
